Wonderful inventions : from the mariner's compass to the electric telegraph cable. /. by John Timbs.
John Timbs (1801-1875)
Category
Books
Date
1882
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3231887
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition, with additions, bringing down the subjects to the present time. xix, 423, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. front. 8vo. Provenance: Inscribed: F. Gerald Agar-Robartes / from [?] / 3rd class prize / Mortimer / August 1st 1894'. Signature illegible but a prize from Mortimer Vicarage, Eton preparatory school in Reading. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full smooth blue goatskin over boards, blind and gilt rolls to cover, gilt rolls at board edges and inners, spine gilt in compartments with three raised bands and two false, brown spine label, marbled edges and endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Timbs (1801-1875)